In my recent work, I have confronted the issue that African Americans may have stopped playing the banjo because of negative images of the banjo. It is...
Hi all, I have been in e-conversation with Lauren Miller, host of the Washtub/ Gutbucket website ( http://tubotonia.freehomepage.com/Tublinks.html ) during my...
Hi Tony, As one that lurks with this group for some time now, this is my favorite topic. I found something just last week that may add to this. It seems to me...
Tony, I've been following the various discussions you have been having on this subject with great interest. Do you have an idea of what the earliest reference...
Well stated Erich, I think the missonaries and preachers of the time may be giving us insight on the mainstream preseption of a culture, i.e. american indians....
Hey, Folks. If you have not, see the film, "Sankofa", by Haile Gerima. It is a very realistic view of slave society--from the inside. Shot in Ghana &...
Public perception of the Banjo changed dramatically through the 1950s and 1960s, partially due to the folk revival, more rapidly becouse of television. In the...
This depiction is similar or most white depictions of African Americans makign African American music in the New World. What is really stigmatized is being...
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I think we are discussing two different things. First, like the quotations previously announced there are a string of similar descriptions of Black music...
TT, I, like many others, have been trying to wrap my mind around this topic for some time. Your statement, "What is really stigmatized is being Black, not the ...
As a person deeply interested in psychological anthropology, this thread provides us with a fascinating case of the shifting social perceptions and the...
When the first African slaves were taken to the US and the Caribbean, they reconstructed several instruments that were known to them in their African...
I, like many others, have been trying to wrap my mind around this topic for some time. Your statement, "What is really stigmatized is being Black, not the ...
In the general discourse about banjo stigma and Black people's attitudes about banjos and slavery, very little opinion by Black people about the issue is ever...
First, I would like to thank the group for allowing this topic to run though. To some this may be a little of topic as we stroll into "psychological...
Hi Tony, I just want to be clear as I meditate on your last message. Are you saying that maybe there is no stigma among african americans toward black banjo...
Now this is some HARD stuff to delve into here, but I also think that it is ultimately liberating for EVERYONE! During my field work with Mento musicians in...
Hello Folks, I trust this doesn't venture to far off the mark? African Americans appear in nineteenth-century sheet music as composers, performers, emancipated...
... you ... toward ... There is definitely "stigma among african americans toward black banjo players?" Many Black people consider a Black person playing the...
Thanks for a good post. I urge everyone can afford to get them to buy Abbott and Seroff's two books on African American entertainment Out of Sight and Ragged...
... A few years ago I did a small exhibit and some workshop/demos about black banjo history and gourd banjo playing for local Southern Maryland audiences of...
Scott where exactly in Maryland was this? How far away was this from Kensington Maryland where still in the mid 1950s, a young Mike Seeger found Black dances...
... This was two years in a row, for an African American Heritage Month celebration at the National Colonial Farm in Accokeek, MD. This is about halfway...
Tony, You might want to get hold of Tom Diamant, who works for Chris Strachwitz at Arhoolie. He is in charge of a project funded by the group Los Tigres del...
Cross post from the Banjo Collectors list. Matt B. Matthew Neiburger Wilmington, North Carolina MNeiburger@... **************************************...
